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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



in words of positive and reasonable intendment and must be 

 either by registered letter or by personal application addressed 

 to said county recorder. Any person failing to so continue and 

 perpetuate such mark, brand and counterbrand, shall lose all 

 right, title and interest therein. 

 First publication: (naming date). 

 Last publication : (naming date). 



Marks, etc., 



deemed 



abandoned. 



County recorder of county." 



publication. SEC. 2. The notice set forth in section one shall be published 

 six times at intervals of four weeks, final publication to be 

 not more than five months later than the original publication 

 thereof. 



continuance SEC. 3. Every person desiring to continue and perpetuate 

 tc ' any mark, brand and counterbrand must comply with the pro- 

 visions set forth in the notice under section one, and the county 

 recorder shall, upon such compliance, write or stamp opposite 

 the record of such mark, brand or counterbrand the word 

 "perpetuated." 



SEC. 4. At the termination of three months after final pub- 

 lication of notice set forth in section one, the county recorders 

 of the several counties shall transfer the records of all marks, 

 brands and counterbrands perpetuated under section three to a 

 new book set apart for the purpose described in section three 

 thousand one hundred sixty-eight of the Political Code, and 

 all marks, brands and counterbrands in the custody of the 

 county recorders of the several counties not so continued and 

 perpetuated shall be deemed to have been abandoned by the 

 owner thereof and to be inoperative and void. 



SEC. 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed as repealing 

 sections three thousand one hundred sixty-eight and three thou- 

 sand one hundred sixty-nine of the Political Code. 



CHANGING OR DEFACING MARKS AND BRANDS. 



Penal Code. 



357. Every person who marks or brands, alters, or defaces 

 the mark or brand of any horse, mare, colt, jack, jennet, mule, 

 bull, ox, steer, cow, or calf belonging to another, with intent 

 thereby to steal the same, or to prevent identification thereof 

 by the true owner, is punishable by imprisonment in the state 's 

 prison for not less than one nor more than five years. (As 

 amended, Stats. 1901, p. 329.) 



357^. Every person who marks or brands, alters or defaces 

 the mark or brand of any sheep, goat, hog, shoat, or pig 

 belonging to another, with intent thereby to steal the same, or 

 to prevent identification thereof by the true owner, is guilty 

 of a misdemeanor. (Added, Stats. 1901, p. 327.) 



Horse, jack, 

 cow, etc. 



Sheep, goat, 

 hog. 



